I never listened to them

 we are grandparents to 8. We have 6 grandsons and 2 granddaughters. 1 granddaughter we never see or talk to not our choice, hers....and 3 grandkids 2 boys and 1 girl that we rarely get to talk to but do once in awhile. and then 4 grandsons who we talk to almost every day some times every other depending on their schedules. I think they should be grateful to have grandparents still alive who can tell them things about when they were young. But then again I never listened to my grandmother on either side. Well there is one thing I did listen to and I dont know why that stuck in my head but it did because it was like a fortune teller telling me the future. She said to me you will have 5 but loose 2, you will have 2 boys and 1 girl. Your daughter will only have sons she is not destine to have any girls, and her oldest son and her youngest son will be the only ones to have a girl.  Well of course I didnt pay any attention to any of that..............Until I had 5 and lost 2, When our daughter  tried for a girl I kept telling her she wasnt destined to have a girl she got mad at me. Well Im sorry but when my grandmother told me this all these years ago it was the only thing I listened to because it was about me in general. She told about how her live was easy. EASY???? NO grandma your life was hard. No my life was easier than my grandmother's was so mine is easy. (huh I never thought of it like that) I remember my dad always telling me us kids had it made our lives were a piece of cake compared to his. Well now that I can agree about and my grandchildrens lives is even easier than mine was. When dad was in his 90's (and at the time which I didnt realize was dying) he spoke often (about the same things over and over again) about how they had to put a rope between the barn and house so they could get to the barn after a snow storm to feed the animals, and how many times they would get into the barn and find the animals dead because they had froze to death. Now see I know I heard that story so many times as a child because I almost knew it by heart, but I didnt really listen to it. Same with grandma she used to heat water on the stove to wash the clothes in a tub and her grandmother used a rock down at the creek. BUT I DIDNT LISTEN TO THAT to me that wasnt part of me of that was going on now. BUT now as Im getting older and I have 8 grandchildren I can actually remember my grandmother telling me these stories of when she was just a girl. of how her mother and or grandmother did things. and my dad how things happened when he was a boy. I always thought he told those things because his father was killed by lightening when he was just a year old and so he grew up with out a dad. But no he actaully told those things to me to tell me how his childhood went compaired to mine in the days of my childhood. SO I did listen, Sorta I heard but didnt know that I heard until I sat down and thought about telling my grandchilden "when I was your age we didnt have......." spiel and think well they aren't really listening to me so why bother.